Jan 04 Taxpayers Say ‘Cliff’ Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Boost Economy, Reduce Debt EmbedVideo(5387, 514, 320); After a protracted battle that culminated in dramatic votes in the wee hours of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the White House and Congress finally agreed upon a deal that kept the country… Continue reading
Jan 04 How Are Arts Organizations Using Digital Technologies? By Tom LeGro A new study, "Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies," was published Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It looks at the ways in which cultural organizations -- theater companies, orchestras, museums -- are using the Internet, social media… Continue reading
Jan 04 Smoking Out the Vultures A few hours before sundown, the vultures arrive by the dozens to roost in Jessica Paulin's backyard. They swoop in, choose the perfect evergreen branch, and with one or two flaps of their massive wings, settle in for the… Continue reading
Jan 04 2012 in Unemployment Data Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its final unemployment numbers for the year, let's take one last look at 2012's unemployment indicators, month-by-month. We've compiled a year's worth of our own, more-inclusive U-7 figures --… Continue reading
Jan 04 December Unemployment Held Steady; U-7 Down Again By Paul Solman A job seeker looks over material during a HIREvent job fair in San Jose, Calif. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Nothing dramatic on the jobs front this month. December's unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 percent. The… Continue reading
Jan 04 U.S. Debt Ceiling: Costs and Consequences Photo of U.S. Capitol by Flickr user UlisesJorge via Creative Commons. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The U.S. Treasury has borrowed trillions of dollars over the past decade, much of it from… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Violence Escalates in Rebel-Government Fight Over Control of Damascus Bombs and airstrikes were on the uptick in Damascus and its surrounding suburbs as rebel fighters and government troops clashed in attempts to take control of Syria's capital. Ray Suarez reports on the latest advances in the country's nearly two-year… Continue watching
Jan 03 Swearing Off Resolutions… Kind of I have never been much for making promises that I know will be impossible to keep. But if you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am more of an optimist than anyone who covers Washington has any… Continue reading
Jan 03 Judy’s Notebook: Burden of a Generation As I watched the drama leading up to the Senate and House votes this week on the so-called fiscal cliff, my mind kept turning to young people. In particular, the giant generation of "millennials," those born in the 1980s and… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch What Al Jazeera’s Current TV Acquisition Means for American Media What Al Jazeera's Current TV Acquisition Means for American Media… Continue watching